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goals_on_dwThere are all kinds of craft challenges and goals that people like to do. Some are individual, others are group events. Some are all year, others shorter. Some have speculative fiction themes, others are ordinary. They span a great many different arts and crafts including but not limited to crochet, drawing, knitting, painting, quilting, sewing, and woodworking. Here are some for your inspiration. On Dreamwidth, see communities for Art and Crafts. Note that get_knitted makes regular checkin posts for your craft projects.
You can pick whichever challenge(s) you want to set as a goal in 2025 and reply with a comment. Below the list of challenges is a short form for listing which you have chosen. Make a post in your blog like "I signed up for the Arts and Crafts challenge ingoals_on_dw" -- or list the specific challenge if you're doing an official one somewhere else instead of a personal one here. Then make a tag for it like "Arts and Crafts Challenge" and put that on the post; it should stick that way. Check your Interests page to see if you have Art, Crafts, Crochet, etc. listed there, which helps people find you. You don't have to sign up to participate, it just helps spread the word and attract more readers.
See also the Fannish 50 challenge, which simply aims to post fifty entries on any topic in fandom. If you want to crochet the crew of the Enterprise, sew a complete capsule wardrobe inspired by hobbits, or carve a replica of Hogwarts, go for it. Either writing about or posting pictures of your progress will count. You can even double-count anything that applies to two or more goals, e.g. stashbusting, crochet, and Fannish 50.
Do you know of any other arts and crafts challenges in 2025? Share a link so they can be added to the list of options.
Challenges
* 2025 Community Calendar inallbingo
A new fest opens each month, although you can play any card at any time. All media and sizes, all fandoms and original work welcome, so you can always make your fills with arts and crafts if you wish. See the Resources list below for project ideas.
* 2025 Block Wednesday Announcement! -- I Love to Make Quilts
Grandma's Kitchen is the heart of the family! You might be a Grandma, or like me, you enjoy remembering your grandma. This is a 25 block Quilt Along (QAL) that will be a sweet trip down memory lane.
Starts Jan 2,2025 (to kick off it is on thurs) to June 25, 2025
Size is 62" x 82" for the asymmetrical and you pick 54" x 54" or 54" x 68" with fewer blocks for the symmetrical.
* 2025 Craft Along -- Carolina FiberFest
Come and bring your Craft-Along project to the Carolina FiberFest and receive a free 2025 commemorative button to honor your success! Just stop by the information desk and show us your projects. Knit or crochet one of our previous craft-along patterns, bring it to Carolina FiberFest and we’ll give you a button from the appropriate year while they last!
* 2025 Crochet Ideas: Create Your Bucket List! -- Desert Blossom Crafts
So want to join me in creating a more relaxed list of crochet goals this year? Let’s make a bucket list together! Keep reading for some ideas on making your list.
* 2025 Mood Tracking Blanket: Four-Square Granny Stitch Crochet Pattern Crochet Along
I’ve got the perfect project for 2025: a mood-tracking blanket that uses the addictive granny stitch to tell your story. Think of it as a diary you can actually curl up with, documenting your year one colorful row at a time!
You don’t need to be a crochet expert to join in on this journey. Each day, you’ll add one row to your blanket, documenting whatever matters most to you – mood, weather, energy, you name it.
* 2025 National Wind Energy Art Challenge -- WINDExchange
The U.S. Department of Energy's Wind Energy Technologies Office is inviting students from kindergarten through 8th grade across the United States to create artwork on the theme “Beautiful Wind Energy” for the National Wind Energy Art Challenge through Feb. 28, 2025.
* 2025 Quilt Contest Entry -- The Great Wisconsin Quilt Show
The Great Wisconsin Quilt Show hosts a 10-category juried and judged Quilt Contest. Quilters of all levels have the opportunity to enter a maximum of four quilts into this exciting contest. Prizes will be awarded in each category, as well as to the Best of Show and Viewers’ Choice quilts. Entries are due by June 30, 2025.
* 2025 Temperature-Sampler Blanket Crochet Along -- Crochet with Tiffany
Join me for the 2025 Temperature-Sampler Blanket Crochet Along! I’m thrilled to announce my 2025 Temperature-Sampler Blanket Crochet Along (CAL) starting in January! This year-long project will combine crochet, temperature tracking, and beautiful yarn choices to create a one-of-a-kind blanket that tells the story of your year.
* The Abyss Cherrywood Challenge 2025
A juried art quilt contest sponsored by Cherrywood Hand Dyed Fabrics. Take inspiration from the theme: ABYSS - Creatures from the Deep. DUE DATE: MAY 15, 2025.
* American Patchwork & Quilting Quilt Along page
Multiple options with new ones appearing periodically.
* Announcing 2025 Contests -- Sewing Pattern Review
13 different contests to consider!
* Announcing the Effervescence Quilt Along {Signups Open!}
While Effervescence was inspired by an improvisationally pieced quilt top, the Effervescence quilt along pattern was designed to create a 56″ x 72″ lap quilt that looks improvisationally pieced but uses traditional piecing methods! Released in sections.
* Announcing The Vintage Christmas Quilt Along!
We can’t wait to revisit the magic of Christmas with all of you during the Vintage Christmas Quilt Along! For the 12 months of 2025, we will dust off our copies of Lori Holt’s Vintage Christmas Book and sew the Vintage Christmas Sampler in her new holiday fabric collection, Home Town Holiday. If you don’t already have this staple in your quilting library, now is the perfect time to pick it up!
* AQC Challenge 2025 Details on Craft & Quilt
Create a 90cm square quilt, using your own unique interpretation of the theme "On the Map." Enter online before Thursday 6th February 2025.
(This just begs to be done with a fantasy or science fiction map.)
* AQS Quilt Contests
Details on website.
* Arizona Woodworking Contest 2025
Register free. Projects due Saturday February 22, 2025. Pack your project in a box and deliver to any of our AZ locations.
* D&December: Make (draw, paint, embroider, bake, carve, etc.) something related to fantasy roleplaying every day in December. That prompt list has two subsections for you to roll random encounters with art!
* Daily Drawing Challenge 2025 on Facebook
This group's focus is to draw your interpretation the daily challenge reference photo that is pinned and posted at the top of the timeline, and then share your results here as a post in the group.
A new photo is posted every day, and we have a photo archive of all previously posted pictures. Draw any of them that catches your attention.
Drawings and paintings in any media (digital or traditional) are acceptable.
* Drawabox
Free art lessons for people who want to level-grind foundational skills. Options include 250 Box Challenge, 250 Cylinder Challenge, 25 Texture Challenge, 25 Wheel Challenge, and 100 Treasure Chest Challenge.
* Fantasy February 2025 prompt list!
Make (draw, paint, embroider, bake, carve, etc.) something fantasy themed every day in February.
* Funuary Prompts for January bykitarella_imagines. Make (draw, paint, embroider, bake, carve, etc.) something whimsical themed every day in January.
* Inktober
Choose either 31 drawings in 31 days or one drawing a week all year long.
* Introducing The Winter Solstice Knitting Challenge 2025!
On January 1, we kick off our annual Winter Solstice Knitting challenge, where as a community we will knit either the Solstice Collared Dickie or Solstice Hug Cowl patterns by Knit Collage team member Cheryl Kubat. 10 day knitting challenge.
* The Joy of Painting by Bob Ross on Twoinchbrush
We don't make mistakes, we just have happy accidents! All the episodes are available free and you can upload your paintings to share with other artists. Set yourself a goal and paint some happy little trees.
* Juliet Quilt Along 2025
Come and spend some time quilting with me in the new year. I will be sharing the most beautiful color options with you for this quilt, and the best part, there are no Y seams in this 45-degree diamond star! Join us for 4 weeks, right here on our Blog and YouTube Channel, to make this beautiful design a reality. Beginning Wednesday, January 15th, we will be making our blocks together! This blog is your guide for all the fabric and supplies you will need to make a beautiful quilt. This event is Free for all to join! You do not need to sign up for it.
* Junicorn: Make (draw, paint, embroider, bake, carve, etc.) a unicorn every day in June. Here is a Junicorn prompt list.
* January 2025 Art Challenge: Suggest Your Themes! -- The Trek BBS
Star Trek fanart challenges.
* The January Challenge 2025
Make things based on 31 prompts; does not seem to specify methods or media.
* Join in the 5th Annual Sewing Room Declutter Challenge
January 1 begins my 5th Annual Declutter Challenge! See also the Stashbusters page.
Technically a housework challenge, but only sewers can do it ... or need to.
* June of Doom 2025
By popular vote, here be the 2025 June of Doom prompt list for your doomsday planning!
Please feel free to participate with original or fan works of any kind (writing, photos, gifs, mood boards, videos, songs, whatever creative medium your heart desires!). You can do one or all of the prompts on any given day, and if none are to your liking, check out the alternate prompts!
* Knit Along 2025 -- The Knitting Guild Association
TKGA is hosting our very first Knit Along!
Enjoy the friendly, supportive, social aspect of knitting with others as we knit an open cardigan with options so you can create your own version.
Register for the KAL Launch Party: January 11, 2025. See tips for participation.
* Lee's Summit Quilters' Guild Projects for 2024-25
Options include a Stashbuster Challenge and an Unfinished Objects Challenge.
* Magical March: Draw magical girls. This magical prompt list has 31.
* Make a temperature afghan or other project. This is usually done with crochet or knitting but you could do patchwork, embroidery, painting -- pretty much any other colorful craft to record daily temperatures. Read the poem "Tempestry" for an example. This is a popular group project, either online or in local craft clubs, so if you're interested then look for other people doing it. There is 2025 craft-along for knitting or crochet here and a 2025 Temperature Quilt Along here. This one on Etsy is a cross-stitch cabinet of oddities where each book is a day's temperature.
* Make:able is a 3D printing and assistive technology design challenge, brought to you by PrintLab, Autodesk & partners. Design and make a 3D printed product or prototype that improves the day-to-day life of someone with a disability or the elderly. Then share your story in a video submission for the chance to win amazing prizes.
Start Date: 16th May 2024
Deadline: 15th May 2025
* MerMay
MerMay is a month-long celebration of creativity, community and above all… MERMAIDS.
Various organizations and individuals participate. Here's a Facebook page for posting MerMay arts and crafts.
*moodthemeinayear
For digital artists, this community supports making custom mood themes for use on Dreamwidth. Choose from small, medium, or large project -- not all of them take a full year.
See details here.
*nacramamo
October is National Craft-Making Month! Hey friends, NaCraMaMo is in full swing. It's now just on Dreamwidth. Follow along with us!
* NaKniSweMo: National Knit A Sweater Month
Here at Interweave, we’ve claimed November as National Knit a Sweater Month (or NaKniSweMo for short—it rolls right off the tongue). All month long, we’re bringing you tips and tricks for knitting sweaters, from gauge and fit to seaming and finishing. If you’ve never knit a sweater before, now is the time! And if you’re a total sweater knitting pro, join us in extolling the virtues of hand-knit sweaters all month long.
* NaNoDrawMo: National Novel Drawing Month
A few days ago I learned about Nanodrawmo, a small spin-off event where the goal is to complete 50 drawings in November. A quick search on Flickr took me to the Nanodrawmo artwork of Mike Creighton, an artist and programmer living in Portland Oregon, who created a lovely series of drawings that make me want to grab a pencil and a pad of paper and draw.
*nanomango -- NaNoMangO
Community for comic artists.
Are you an artist instead of a writer? Or do you do both, but you're stuck in art mode right now? Is all the talk about NaNoWriMo making you want to be part of the November insanity but 50,000 words looks really daunting?
Welcome to NaNoMangO, the art alternative to NaNoWriMo. Sharpen your pencils! It's all about thirty pages of penciled sequential art, in whatever style you choose, a page a day through the entire month of November. Come join the insanity, spread the word, and hang around with everyone else who's going to be wailing about page layout and bad drawing and not being able to find their favorite eraser in addition to stuck plots and stubborn main characters.
* Plein Airpril: The Plein Airpril Challenge is a social media campaign that challenges artists and painting enthusiasts to paint and share one plein-air painting a day during the month of April.
* Pride Month Art Challenge: Make (draw, paint, embroider, bake, carve, etc.) QUILTBAG arts and crafts every day. Here is a generic pride art prompt list and a QUILTBAG one. This one has general and fannish prompts. Fannish lists may focus on things like original characters or characters/ships.
* QuiltCon 2025 Challenges
Get involved with QuiltCon 2025 by joining one of the members-only challenges! Each challenge has its own focus — a color palette, technique, or design motif — and its own specific guidelines for participants. QuiltCon 2025 Phoenix, AZ February 20-23.
* Quilty Challenges -- Brownbirddesigns
The Great Jelly Role Bash: This challenge is a Zoom event on September 20th 2025. There will be games and giveaways. The ticket into the event will be the purchase order number from the Jelly Roll pattern bundle. That is right there will be a bundle of patterns from 5 different pattern designers.
* Sketchtember -- Sketch every day in September. Here are some random Sketchtember prompts.
* Smaugust -- Make (draw, paint, embroider, bake, carve, etc.) a dragon every day in August. This dragon prompt list gives 31.
* Spooktober: Make (draw, paint, embroider, bake, carve, etc.) something scary every day in October. Here is a Spooktober prompt list.
* Stashbusting. You can use up supplies for any art or craft where you've got an overload of fabric, paint, yarn, etc. See the Stashbusters quilting page and Quilters' Guild page. The Crochet Bucket List challenge and Stolen Stitches New Year's Resolutions for Knitting include a stashbusting option.
* Stolen Stitches New Year's Resolutions for Knitting
It may be early December, but it’s never too soon to start thinking about our New Year’s knitting resolutions, is it?
Whether it’s mastering a new technique, taking a few minutes to knit daily, finally tackling those WIPs that have been sitting in your project bag, or – yes, I’ll say it – committing to knitting from your stash, the possibilities are endless.
* Unfinished Objects / Work in Progress: Set a goal to finish something that isn't done yet. The Crochet Bucket List challenge and Stolen Stitches New Year's Resolutions for Knitting include a UFO / WIP option.
Resources
15 Magical Free Crochet Patterns For Harry Potter Fans That Will Transport You to Hogwarts
30 Star Wars Knitting and Crochet Patterns
57 Stash Busting Knitting Patterns
75+ Free Sewing Projects for Busting Your Scrap Stash!
100+ Stash Busting Crochet Patterns -- Quick Easy Patterns
All Crafts (patterns)
All Free Crochet (patterns and tutorials)
All Free Knitting (patterns and tutorials)
All Free Sewing (patterns and tutorials)
Dr. Who Scarf Knitting Pattern
Nerdy Pattern Round Up! (crochet) -- World of Wipcraft
Star Trek Inspired Knitting Patterns
Top 19 Trends in DIY Crafts for 2025 -- Meliandmelo
Top 20 Free Scrap Quilt Patterns (+8 Bonus Patterns For Sale)
If you want to commit to an arts and crafts goal for next year, then you can sign up with a comment under this post using the form below:
Name:
My arts and crafts challenge entries will be posted at: (place your tag URL here)
My method / medium: (crochet, knit, paint, sketch, wood, etc.)
My theme: (mixed / single / none, and what it is if any)
My journal status: (friends only / friends only except public challenge posts / filters / open)
Other details: (main fandoms, standard content warnings, seeking friends, etc.)
Anything else you want to share:
Participants
*yarnandglue
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get_knitted makes regular checkin posts for your craft projects.You can pick whichever challenge(s) you want to set as a goal in 2025 and reply with a comment. Below the list of challenges is a short form for listing which you have chosen. Make a post in your blog like "I signed up for the Arts and Crafts challenge in
goals_on_dw" -- or list the specific challenge if you're doing an official one somewhere else instead of a personal one here. Then make a tag for it like "Arts and Crafts Challenge" and put that on the post; it should stick that way. Check your Interests page to see if you have Art, Crafts, Crochet, etc. listed there, which helps people find you. You don't have to sign up to participate, it just helps spread the word and attract more readers.See also the Fannish 50 challenge, which simply aims to post fifty entries on any topic in fandom. If you want to crochet the crew of the Enterprise, sew a complete capsule wardrobe inspired by hobbits, or carve a replica of Hogwarts, go for it. Either writing about or posting pictures of your progress will count. You can even double-count anything that applies to two or more goals, e.g. stashbusting, crochet, and Fannish 50.
Do you know of any other arts and crafts challenges in 2025? Share a link so they can be added to the list of options.
Challenges
* 2025 Community Calendar in
allbingo A new fest opens each month, although you can play any card at any time. All media and sizes, all fandoms and original work welcome, so you can always make your fills with arts and crafts if you wish. See the Resources list below for project ideas.
* 2025 Block Wednesday Announcement! -- I Love to Make Quilts
Grandma's Kitchen is the heart of the family! You might be a Grandma, or like me, you enjoy remembering your grandma. This is a 25 block Quilt Along (QAL) that will be a sweet trip down memory lane.
Starts Jan 2,2025 (to kick off it is on thurs) to June 25, 2025
Size is 62" x 82" for the asymmetrical and you pick 54" x 54" or 54" x 68" with fewer blocks for the symmetrical.
* 2025 Craft Along -- Carolina FiberFest
Come and bring your Craft-Along project to the Carolina FiberFest and receive a free 2025 commemorative button to honor your success! Just stop by the information desk and show us your projects. Knit or crochet one of our previous craft-along patterns, bring it to Carolina FiberFest and we’ll give you a button from the appropriate year while they last!
* 2025 Crochet Ideas: Create Your Bucket List! -- Desert Blossom Crafts
So want to join me in creating a more relaxed list of crochet goals this year? Let’s make a bucket list together! Keep reading for some ideas on making your list.
* 2025 Mood Tracking Blanket: Four-Square Granny Stitch Crochet Pattern Crochet Along
I’ve got the perfect project for 2025: a mood-tracking blanket that uses the addictive granny stitch to tell your story. Think of it as a diary you can actually curl up with, documenting your year one colorful row at a time!
You don’t need to be a crochet expert to join in on this journey. Each day, you’ll add one row to your blanket, documenting whatever matters most to you – mood, weather, energy, you name it.
* 2025 National Wind Energy Art Challenge -- WINDExchange
The U.S. Department of Energy's Wind Energy Technologies Office is inviting students from kindergarten through 8th grade across the United States to create artwork on the theme “Beautiful Wind Energy” for the National Wind Energy Art Challenge through Feb. 28, 2025.
* 2025 Quilt Contest Entry -- The Great Wisconsin Quilt Show
The Great Wisconsin Quilt Show hosts a 10-category juried and judged Quilt Contest. Quilters of all levels have the opportunity to enter a maximum of four quilts into this exciting contest. Prizes will be awarded in each category, as well as to the Best of Show and Viewers’ Choice quilts. Entries are due by June 30, 2025.
* 2025 Temperature-Sampler Blanket Crochet Along -- Crochet with Tiffany
Join me for the 2025 Temperature-Sampler Blanket Crochet Along! I’m thrilled to announce my 2025 Temperature-Sampler Blanket Crochet Along (CAL) starting in January! This year-long project will combine crochet, temperature tracking, and beautiful yarn choices to create a one-of-a-kind blanket that tells the story of your year.
* The Abyss Cherrywood Challenge 2025
A juried art quilt contest sponsored by Cherrywood Hand Dyed Fabrics. Take inspiration from the theme: ABYSS - Creatures from the Deep. DUE DATE: MAY 15, 2025.
* American Patchwork & Quilting Quilt Along page
Multiple options with new ones appearing periodically.
* Announcing 2025 Contests -- Sewing Pattern Review
13 different contests to consider!
* Announcing the Effervescence Quilt Along {Signups Open!}
While Effervescence was inspired by an improvisationally pieced quilt top, the Effervescence quilt along pattern was designed to create a 56″ x 72″ lap quilt that looks improvisationally pieced but uses traditional piecing methods! Released in sections.
* Announcing The Vintage Christmas Quilt Along!
We can’t wait to revisit the magic of Christmas with all of you during the Vintage Christmas Quilt Along! For the 12 months of 2025, we will dust off our copies of Lori Holt’s Vintage Christmas Book and sew the Vintage Christmas Sampler in her new holiday fabric collection, Home Town Holiday. If you don’t already have this staple in your quilting library, now is the perfect time to pick it up!
* AQC Challenge 2025 Details on Craft & Quilt
Create a 90cm square quilt, using your own unique interpretation of the theme "On the Map." Enter online before Thursday 6th February 2025.
(This just begs to be done with a fantasy or science fiction map.)
* AQS Quilt Contests
Details on website.
* Arizona Woodworking Contest 2025
Register free. Projects due Saturday February 22, 2025. Pack your project in a box and deliver to any of our AZ locations.
* D&December: Make (draw, paint, embroider, bake, carve, etc.) something related to fantasy roleplaying every day in December. That prompt list has two subsections for you to roll random encounters with art!
* Daily Drawing Challenge 2025 on Facebook
This group's focus is to draw your interpretation the daily challenge reference photo that is pinned and posted at the top of the timeline, and then share your results here as a post in the group.
A new photo is posted every day, and we have a photo archive of all previously posted pictures. Draw any of them that catches your attention.
Drawings and paintings in any media (digital or traditional) are acceptable.
* Drawabox
Free art lessons for people who want to level-grind foundational skills. Options include 250 Box Challenge, 250 Cylinder Challenge, 25 Texture Challenge, 25 Wheel Challenge, and 100 Treasure Chest Challenge.
* Fantasy February 2025 prompt list!
Make (draw, paint, embroider, bake, carve, etc.) something fantasy themed every day in February.
* Funuary Prompts for January by
kitarella_imagines. Make (draw, paint, embroider, bake, carve, etc.) something whimsical themed every day in January.* Inktober
Choose either 31 drawings in 31 days or one drawing a week all year long.
* Introducing The Winter Solstice Knitting Challenge 2025!
On January 1, we kick off our annual Winter Solstice Knitting challenge, where as a community we will knit either the Solstice Collared Dickie or Solstice Hug Cowl patterns by Knit Collage team member Cheryl Kubat. 10 day knitting challenge.
* The Joy of Painting by Bob Ross on Twoinchbrush
We don't make mistakes, we just have happy accidents! All the episodes are available free and you can upload your paintings to share with other artists. Set yourself a goal and paint some happy little trees.
* Juliet Quilt Along 2025
Come and spend some time quilting with me in the new year. I will be sharing the most beautiful color options with you for this quilt, and the best part, there are no Y seams in this 45-degree diamond star! Join us for 4 weeks, right here on our Blog and YouTube Channel, to make this beautiful design a reality. Beginning Wednesday, January 15th, we will be making our blocks together! This blog is your guide for all the fabric and supplies you will need to make a beautiful quilt. This event is Free for all to join! You do not need to sign up for it.
* Junicorn: Make (draw, paint, embroider, bake, carve, etc.) a unicorn every day in June. Here is a Junicorn prompt list.
* January 2025 Art Challenge: Suggest Your Themes! -- The Trek BBS
Star Trek fanart challenges.
* The January Challenge 2025
Make things based on 31 prompts; does not seem to specify methods or media.
* Join in the 5th Annual Sewing Room Declutter Challenge
January 1 begins my 5th Annual Declutter Challenge! See also the Stashbusters page.
Technically a housework challenge, but only sewers can do it ... or need to.
* June of Doom 2025
By popular vote, here be the 2025 June of Doom prompt list for your doomsday planning!
Please feel free to participate with original or fan works of any kind (writing, photos, gifs, mood boards, videos, songs, whatever creative medium your heart desires!). You can do one or all of the prompts on any given day, and if none are to your liking, check out the alternate prompts!
* Knit Along 2025 -- The Knitting Guild Association
TKGA is hosting our very first Knit Along!
Enjoy the friendly, supportive, social aspect of knitting with others as we knit an open cardigan with options so you can create your own version.
Register for the KAL Launch Party: January 11, 2025. See tips for participation.
* Lee's Summit Quilters' Guild Projects for 2024-25
Options include a Stashbuster Challenge and an Unfinished Objects Challenge.
* Magical March: Draw magical girls. This magical prompt list has 31.
* Make a temperature afghan or other project. This is usually done with crochet or knitting but you could do patchwork, embroidery, painting -- pretty much any other colorful craft to record daily temperatures. Read the poem "Tempestry" for an example. This is a popular group project, either online or in local craft clubs, so if you're interested then look for other people doing it. There is 2025 craft-along for knitting or crochet here and a 2025 Temperature Quilt Along here. This one on Etsy is a cross-stitch cabinet of oddities where each book is a day's temperature.
* Make:able is a 3D printing and assistive technology design challenge, brought to you by PrintLab, Autodesk & partners. Design and make a 3D printed product or prototype that improves the day-to-day life of someone with a disability or the elderly. Then share your story in a video submission for the chance to win amazing prizes.
Start Date: 16th May 2024
Deadline: 15th May 2025
* MerMay
MerMay is a month-long celebration of creativity, community and above all… MERMAIDS.
Various organizations and individuals participate. Here's a Facebook page for posting MerMay arts and crafts.
*
moodthemeinayearFor digital artists, this community supports making custom mood themes for use on Dreamwidth. Choose from small, medium, or large project -- not all of them take a full year.
See details here.
*
nacramamo October is National Craft-Making Month! Hey friends, NaCraMaMo is in full swing. It's now just on Dreamwidth. Follow along with us!
* NaKniSweMo: National Knit A Sweater Month
Here at Interweave, we’ve claimed November as National Knit a Sweater Month (or NaKniSweMo for short—it rolls right off the tongue). All month long, we’re bringing you tips and tricks for knitting sweaters, from gauge and fit to seaming and finishing. If you’ve never knit a sweater before, now is the time! And if you’re a total sweater knitting pro, join us in extolling the virtues of hand-knit sweaters all month long.
* NaNoDrawMo: National Novel Drawing Month
A few days ago I learned about Nanodrawmo, a small spin-off event where the goal is to complete 50 drawings in November. A quick search on Flickr took me to the Nanodrawmo artwork of Mike Creighton, an artist and programmer living in Portland Oregon, who created a lovely series of drawings that make me want to grab a pencil and a pad of paper and draw.
*
nanomango -- NaNoMangOCommunity for comic artists.
Are you an artist instead of a writer? Or do you do both, but you're stuck in art mode right now? Is all the talk about NaNoWriMo making you want to be part of the November insanity but 50,000 words looks really daunting?
Welcome to NaNoMangO, the art alternative to NaNoWriMo. Sharpen your pencils! It's all about thirty pages of penciled sequential art, in whatever style you choose, a page a day through the entire month of November. Come join the insanity, spread the word, and hang around with everyone else who's going to be wailing about page layout and bad drawing and not being able to find their favorite eraser in addition to stuck plots and stubborn main characters.
* Plein Airpril: The Plein Airpril Challenge is a social media campaign that challenges artists and painting enthusiasts to paint and share one plein-air painting a day during the month of April.
* Pride Month Art Challenge: Make (draw, paint, embroider, bake, carve, etc.) QUILTBAG arts and crafts every day. Here is a generic pride art prompt list and a QUILTBAG one. This one has general and fannish prompts. Fannish lists may focus on things like original characters or characters/ships.
* QuiltCon 2025 Challenges
Get involved with QuiltCon 2025 by joining one of the members-only challenges! Each challenge has its own focus — a color palette, technique, or design motif — and its own specific guidelines for participants. QuiltCon 2025 Phoenix, AZ February 20-23.
* Quilty Challenges -- Brownbirddesigns
The Great Jelly Role Bash: This challenge is a Zoom event on September 20th 2025. There will be games and giveaways. The ticket into the event will be the purchase order number from the Jelly Roll pattern bundle. That is right there will be a bundle of patterns from 5 different pattern designers.
* Sketchtember -- Sketch every day in September. Here are some random Sketchtember prompts.
* Smaugust -- Make (draw, paint, embroider, bake, carve, etc.) a dragon every day in August. This dragon prompt list gives 31.
* Spooktober: Make (draw, paint, embroider, bake, carve, etc.) something scary every day in October. Here is a Spooktober prompt list.
* Stashbusting. You can use up supplies for any art or craft where you've got an overload of fabric, paint, yarn, etc. See the Stashbusters quilting page and Quilters' Guild page. The Crochet Bucket List challenge and Stolen Stitches New Year's Resolutions for Knitting include a stashbusting option.
* Stolen Stitches New Year's Resolutions for Knitting
It may be early December, but it’s never too soon to start thinking about our New Year’s knitting resolutions, is it?
Whether it’s mastering a new technique, taking a few minutes to knit daily, finally tackling those WIPs that have been sitting in your project bag, or – yes, I’ll say it – committing to knitting from your stash, the possibilities are endless.
* Unfinished Objects / Work in Progress: Set a goal to finish something that isn't done yet. The Crochet Bucket List challenge and Stolen Stitches New Year's Resolutions for Knitting include a UFO / WIP option.
Resources
15 Magical Free Crochet Patterns For Harry Potter Fans That Will Transport You to Hogwarts
30 Star Wars Knitting and Crochet Patterns
57 Stash Busting Knitting Patterns
75+ Free Sewing Projects for Busting Your Scrap Stash!
100+ Stash Busting Crochet Patterns -- Quick Easy Patterns
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All Free Crochet (patterns and tutorials)
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All Free Sewing (patterns and tutorials)
Dr. Who Scarf Knitting Pattern
Nerdy Pattern Round Up! (crochet) -- World of Wipcraft
Star Trek Inspired Knitting Patterns
Top 19 Trends in DIY Crafts for 2025 -- Meliandmelo
Top 20 Free Scrap Quilt Patterns (+8 Bonus Patterns For Sale)
If you want to commit to an arts and crafts goal for next year, then you can sign up with a comment under this post using the form below:
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